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To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Queen Elizabeth once again paid tribute to her late husband Prince Philip by wearing a brooch with a special meaning behind it. The monarch visited the company of the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth in Portsmouth on Saturday in advance of its maiden departure. During the visit, the royal went aboard the ship, one of the two largest warships ever built by the Royal Navy, and met with various officers of the Royal Navy, Royal Air Force, and Royal Marines. For the occasion, the Queen wore a vibrant red hat and coat adorned w...

Kate Middleton might need to keep a closer eye on her husband Prince William while on their mini-tour of Scotland this week as one Scottish nonagenarian has already tried to put the moves on the royal. On Sunday, the Duke of Cambridge stopped by the Queens Bay Lodge Care Home in Edinburgh, Scotland where he ate ice cream and engaged in some cheeky banter with a few of the local residents. While speaking with 96-year-old Betty Magee and her granddaughter Kimberley Anderson, Magee informed the royal sitting across from her that, “It's customary in these parts to give a lady a kiss on th...

The row over a new biography of Philip Roth has exposed the way agents and estates restrict access and manage archives to maintain a writer’s posthumous good name

Exam Warriors/Twitter In recent weeks, as smoke from mass funeral pyres rose across India, Penguin Random House India cranked up the publicity machinery for their most famous “author”, Narendra Modi. The cruelty and callousness of powerful men have been at the centre of many spirited recent debates within publishing houses across Europe and America. Norton withdrew its bestselling biography of Philip Roth after sexual abuse claims against its author, Blake Bailey, came to light. In France, Gallimard pulled all the books by one of their most cherished authors, Gabriel Matzneff. Most r...

The Roth Biography Scandal Philip Roth: The Biography—the key issue being, Was Roth a misogynist?—when both book and biographer spilled over from the review pages to Page One. “Sexual Assault Allegations Against Biographer Halt Shipping of his Book,” the New York Times announced in April. Several women accused Bailey of predatory behavior. At a Louisiana private school where he had once taught English, he was said to have “groomed” eighth-graders for later of-age seductions to rape. And a woman said that Bailey had raped her at the home of a mutual friend who—in one of the sca...